New Everton Stadium

[Timbucktoo]

I'm not for it, but if it makes most financial sense then fair enough I suppose.

Thing is though, I won't be able to set foot in there to watch a women's game if they knock it all down and just have the Park End and three small stands around the pitch. I wouldn't want to see it disrespected like that.

Fair enough for the kids and those who watch women's football who don't have the same attachment as I do, but after 18th May I won't ever set foot in Goodison again. I want to remember her as she was.

I think this is the driving force behind the decision. Why pay rent to the council for them to play at WHP, which I think needs some work for to increase capacity for WSL games, when you have a stadium site at Goodison where you can have a home venue for the ladies that is historically linked to the club.

 

[sbbefc]

I don't have a problem with them retaining some football at GP. I just hope the stands are designed sensitively. The problem I see is it won't be economical to keep some of the old Archibald Leich elements. That's what makes the stadium. If they could keep the Bullens Road stand then redevelope the other two with housing, community uses, older people's accommodation etc it could be a really good project. Park End and three new stands would be disappointing. They need a really good architect to make this work and for it to be worthwhile.

 

[The binman chronicles]

It does make sense from a financial point of view and it's better to have a pitch still there than a plaque saying "here was the centre circle". We also have to think the Goodison that will remain will not be the Goodison we love, so it is still the end, albeit just a chapter in its life.

Saying that I would love it if they can keep the Bullens Road stand.

 

[AdamEFC]

Can we sell it to the woman’s team?

 

[davek]

That's great news.

 

[The Littlest Yobo]

Seems like a win win to me.
- Everton mens team sell Goodison Park to the women’s team to help with PSR (similar to Chelsea with the hotels).
- GP remains a historic and functioning ground.
- Likely cheaper to reduce the capacity of GP than build a new women’s stadium from scratch.

I’d imagine they’ll keep the Park End since it’s the most modern stand and knock down the upper Tiers of the Bullens, Gwladys and Main stand. That reduces capacity to around 15/20k which is more than enough for the women’s team at the moment whilst providing decent surplus capacity if popularity grows and reducing overall maintenance costs.

If you think the Premier League are going to let Everton get away with the same PSR fiddles as Chelsea do, I strongly disagree. Watch that particular loophole get tightened up as soon as a non-Sky team tries it. I just don’t feel this at all. Happy for those who do, but Goodison is over for me the last time I walk out after the Southampton game.

 

[maccavennie]

Can we sell it to the woman’s team?

Not sure tbh mate. Haven't Chelsea done something dodgy regarding selling something to the women's team

 

[sbbefc]

Not sure tbh mate. Haven't Chelsea done something dodgy regarding selling something to the women's team

If the women's team are a seperate company I don't see why not. But then again I'm not an expert.

Before the Russians were public enemy no. 1 we got away with selling training ground naming rights to ourselves.

 

[YoboCopter]

so what is a bulldozer?

Id rather be bulldozed myself then watch womans footy at goodison!

 

[Tony’s Carp]

I think this is the driving force behind the decision. Why pay rent to the council for them to play at WHP, which I think needs some work for to increase capacity for WSL games, when you have a stadium site at Goodison where you can have a home venue for the ladies that is historically linked to the club.

If Blue Bill was still kicking about I’d dismiss this as silly nostalgia not wanting to knock Goodison down.

But TFG will have looked at it purely practically and if two of the things on your to do list are to find the women a stadium and knock down a stadium, it’s 2+2 I guess. Im sure it’ll have been evaluated in purely financial and practical terms.

Sure there will be substantial conversion work to a more practical capacity and maybe the “new” stadium it becomes could get a new name to respect the past but also move on.

 

[mightymoyes]

Womens football isnt nothing to do with the mens game should be kept seperate

Not having them play at bramley moore is keeping them separate though so your comment has no logic

 

[RinkyDinker]

I know the costs to run the ladies team is small compared to the men’s. If they get say 5 games a season, with 20’000 fans In Goodison, how much would that go towards funding the likes of the women’s team over a portion of season. May not make a dent, but surely still wayyyyy more than what Walton Hall brings in. Personally, I was happy for goodison to end next weekend, but from an owners stance, it may cover a lot of the costs.

 

[YoboCopter]

Not having them play at bramley moore is keeping them separate though so your comment has no logic

I dont use logic that often tbh im a very troubled and muddled chap

 

[Jacko93]

That's great news.

Yes mate, loads of time for TFG to catch a game there now.

 

[allen]

Who wouldn’t want football to continue to be played on that famous pitch? For kids that haven’t yet been born to watch their heroes play at the legendary Goodison Park?

A minority of our fanbase, it would seem.